HERE is the report of what occurs too often, of a young man named Knevals, who died of what is called a "smoker's heart." He smoked cigarettes nearly all his waking time. What is strange, he was a physician, and must have known the danger of the practice. That which gives tobacco its "virtue" is its deadly poisonous alkaloids; and while one can, by careful abuse, overcome the first toxic effects of tobacco, and seem to be uninjured, yet even those who appear to have hardened themselves most are liable to fall victims to the smoker's special diseases. Of all forms of tobacco, the cigarette is the most dangerous. This is not because, as was at first thought, the paper is poisonous, but because the poison of the tobacco is not intercepted. In smoking a long and closely packed cigar, much of the alkaloids is absorbed and deposited before it reaches the mouth, and the end of the cigar is generally thrown away, because it becomes disagreeable. So a long pipe condenses in its stem much of the nicotine. But a cigarette is loosely packed, is short, and is smoked up close to the mouth. Nearly all its poison gets into the system. We sometimes hear it said that the Turks are great smokers, and yet are a healthy people. The Turks are not much of a people to boast of, but it must be remembered that if they are the greatest of all smokers, they smoke in the least unhealthy way. Their pipes have very long stems, and often the smoke is first washed in water, and then passed through several feet of a flexible tube before reaching the mouth. The injury is thus reduced to a minimum, just as the cigarette raises it to a maximum. The law should forbid boys to smoke cigarettes or cigars, and good sense should prevent their elders.—Independent.